A Thousand Words For Ai Wei Wei
A personal statement by artcritical’s regular China hand complements our editorial on the subject
Out of the Reach of Premeditation: New Works by Jane Freilicher
Her exhibition at Tibor De Nagy has been extended through June 3
Swanning Around Ahead of the Oscars: Three Shows in LA
Clare Rojas at Prism, Sam Durant at Blum & Poe and Black Swan at Regan Projects
Variety Trumps Argument at the Bronx River Art Center
The Working Title, a raucous survey of contemporary abstraction with an undercurrent of humor, until April 29
Spring Chickens: The MFA Thesis Show Season Is Underway
Exhibition details for programs across the metropolis.
The Pleasures of the Pursuit: Talks by William Kentridge and Philip Pearlstein in Jerusalem
The artists gave lectures at the Jerusalem Studio School and the Israel Museum
Sitability Undermined: The Nail Works of Günther Uecker
Important loan exhibition from museums and private collections was at L&M Arts
Gold Star for Sculpture: ISC honors Frank Stella
Lifetime Achievement Award at International Sculpture Center’s NY gala, Tuesday, April 26
Rooted in Lived Experience: Gabriel Laderman
He argued for perceptual representation that engaged with larger traditions.
The Mixologist: Peter Reginato at Heidi Cho
Peter Reginato’s gutsy, boisterous assemblages mate the mediums of sculpture and painting. It would simply be insufficient to describe the components of his collages in steel as colorful. Welded sculptural form becomes the unlikely support for what would anyway be a dense, involved composition were it contained within the politely conventional dimensions of a stretched … Continued